The Big Blue Feedback Thread

[Liam_Harper]

I noticed you can solo Aurum Vale quite smoothly on BLU with level sync on for Moogle Tomes. My run was about 9 minutes but that was a first try so I expect it can be optimized for shorter times. Obviously groups are faster but it's a nice option to have if you can't find a party or prefer to run alone in your spare time.

Edit: Wanderer's Palace is even better, was around the 6:30-7:00 min mark.

[Lyth]

Most fights are scripted, so good tanks know when tankbusters occur down to their timestamps. It's not uncommon for a tank who is optimizing for difficult content to pop a cooldown 18 seconds in advance, knowing full well that the last two seconds will catch a tankbuster and allow the cooldown to be back up early enough to catch the next one. Also, historically, abilities like IB used to require you to anticipate cooldowns even at baseline levels of play.

I think that if you're trying to do something optional but fun, there definitely should be a timing challenge attached.

[Liam_Harper]

Most fights are scripted, so good tanks know when tankbusters occur down to their timestamps.

That means you have to know the script and timeline though. It's not really intended that you fail every tankbuster during prog until you figure out the exact timing in advance. Even most Savage tankbusters have generous cast bars so you can react with instant mitigation.

If you wanted challenge you could put a few mitigations on casts, but still have enough instants to survive a tankbuster. That way the average player or player who is learning a fight can react with them but a veteran tank is rewarded further.

[Lyth]

People make charts with timestamp lists for every fight, so this isn't top secret information. You're not doing prog on BLU. It's meant to be a fun way to revisit fights. I don't mind either way, but it's not essential.

What you should ask for is Re-raise as a tank invuln.

Reraise
For the next X seconds, most attacks cannot reduce your HP to less than 1. If a lethal attack is prevented this way, your character faceplants to the ground, and a small angel restores you to full health.

Just stick it into the next Gilgamesh encounter that we get.

[Raikai]

People make charts with timestamp lists for every fight, so this isn't top secret information. You're not doing prog on BLU. It's meant to be a fun way to revisit fights. I don't mind either way, but it's not essential.

What you should ask for is Re-raise as a tank invuln.

Reraise
For the next X seconds, most attacks cannot reduce your HP to less than 1. If a lethal attack is prevented this way, your character faceplants to the ground, and a small angel restores you to full health.

Just stick it into the next Gilgamesh encounter that we get.

This kind of skilled gameplay is attainable? Defnitely... But that's probably not where I would personally add challenge to that content, since it essentially affects the performance of every BLU tank across the board regardless of difficulty.

I've defnitely tried and was really excited for it, but if the takbuster mitigator situation was purposedly set like that to create a more challenging tanking scenario, yeah... It's not for me, then. I can defnitely pull through memorizing the timers of the tankbusters, but the stress of literally being 2-shot if you miss that and if your healer won't top you off ASAP doesn't make it worth.

[Hasrat]

Kinda disappointed to find how many of the new spells are locked behind level 70 duties. Picking my 60 BLU back up, and basically the only things I can go hunt for are Basic Instinct and Choco Meteor. Maybe pick up the 2 namazu skills. Ultravibration and Aetherial Spark look like it might be wiser to wait a few levels. Really needed to scatter a few more spells in the leveling dungeons or something.

Later edit: turns out it's not too bad going after all these open world spells at 60-61. I can see how Basic Instinct is a spell we needed years ago. And it's nice that they put it available at an appropriate level. Curious to know/see if anyone's rolled a fresh BLU to see how much more can be easily solo'd now. I mean, solo'd at reasonable levels, not so much waiting until 70 to get Lv 5 Petrify or whatever).

Of course, now that I have gotten all these open world spells, still stuck with the grind to 70. Bit of a shame, really, that we don't get more of a boost out of FATEs or beast tribes or anything.

[Leidolf]

You know how someone mentioned training dummies for Aetherial Mimicry?

Why not let you get the appropriate stance from your Chocobo when it's set to one of those stances? We already get a buff from Choco Meteor and they're much more portable than training dummies, meaning I can swap skillsets in the overworld.

I also learned that Shinryu will double auto whichever Blue Mage plays Tank due to the fact that there's no set role and it hurts.

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

I did not see it, so I will post it myself. >3> Fun Fact discovered by TheoryCrafters in the Discord Server "Blue Academy", a few months ago...
Whistle or Tingle --> Tingle or Whistle --> Abyssal Transfixion or Sharpened Knife, is a slightly higher potency than just x3 Abyssal Transfixion or x3 Sharpened Knife! =w=

StormBLUd has granted Blue Mage a unofficial pseudo 1-2-3 Combo, which is more interactive..! than the lousy just a single GCD.. over and over and over.. while waiting for CDs or some mechanic to happen.

[whiteblade89]

One thing I would love to see is more staffs. They are already just for glamor purposes anyway; I think if you do the EX Primal fights, there should be new cosmetic staff's. As it is now, the selection of staff's is criminally underwhelming. Add primal inspired staff's as rewards for achievements. Seems like a no brainer to me. Sorry if it's already been stated.

[Garnix]

So, I think this interview went under the radar, but AfroSenju actually asked Yoshi-P about BLU mage.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1175497...ives&sort=time
Timestamp 5:38

So....no plan to change it, even though so many people dislike it.
Yoshida went through surprisingly no depth at all with his answer though, and said nothing that he didn't already say in the past, which I find a bit odd. Like he doesn't want to speak about it too much.